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Once in a lifetime a tale comes along that captivates the world.  Every generation has a story that galvanizes the soul and crystallizes the universality of the human condition.  No writer in American literary history has done this more so than Herman Melville with his publication of Moby Dick in 1851.  It is the classic tale of an eerily compelling sea captain pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast, treacherous and unfathomable as the sea itself.  It is also a meditation on America before, during and after the Civil War.  As Captain Ahab leads the crew of the Pequod on their quest of revenge, a story unfolds of a vast human landscape imprisoned in one person’s monomania; and yet Melville tempers madness with reason in the voice of Ishmael, the play’s moral and narrative center.

The Red Bank Regional High School Theater Company brings you Orson Welles imaginative 1955 adaption of the book to the stage of the Joseph A. Russo III Theater.  From the depths of Melville’s imagination to the hearts and minds of the young cast of this production comes a new interpretation of one of the greatest American novels of all time. 

Enjoy,

Reuben Jackson  

Photo Credit: Marc Pitanza